The Event: A wondrous and unforgettable Valentine's evening for lovers, confidants, suitors and occasional partners at the world's greatest seafood market. This singular New York experience features bountiful wine pours, Latin jazz vibes from the Jeremy Bosch Quintet, and bacchanalian trays overflowing with fresh oysters, clams, and prawns. The night culminates in a sumptuous main course of perfectly cooked Hidden Fjord salmon, decadent paella, and exquisite chocolate dessert--all against an improbable backdrop of soaring trusses and the lingering scent of the sea, where grit and glamour coexist without apology.
Join us for a guided journey with host and historian Justin Fornal who will engage the senses with curated talks & tastings of the world’s rarest and most coveted aphrodisiac and lead guests in a sacred absinthe ritual and sipping tutorial. Known in 19th century New York as la fée verte—the green fairy—absinthe traveled easily across oceans in the Fish Market's earliest days. It arrived in the holds of ships alongside wine, spirits, spices, codfish, and dried herbs, moving through the same port corridors that fed the city. French and Swiss sailors, dockworkers, and expatriates drank it in the waterfront cafés and taverns that lined South Street, where long hours, cold nights, and uncertain fortunes made ritual as important as sustenance.
The Experience: Slip behind the curtain of the legendary Fulton Fish Market for a seated dinner, on the Market's selling floor, featuring wine, music, and aphrodisiac sampling. A 203 year-old New York institution and long a haunt of raconteurs, buccaneers, scoundrels, and lovers, the Fish Market is today an engine of global trade and destination for the world's freshest and most sought after seafood.
A premium experience will feature drinks and dining in a jacuzzi station for up to 4 guests in each of 12 heated hot tubs. This package also includes a changing room, a private table for up to 4, coat rack, and other unique perks.
Attire: Frigid-Aire Couture. The venue for Oysters & Absinthe is the selling floor of the legendary Fulton Fish Market, which in 2005 relocated from the South Street Seaport of Manhattan to the Hunts Point section of The Bronx. The market is the largest wholesale fish market in the US and is a 400,000 square foot refrigerator--the music will be sultry but the interior temperature will be a cool 44 degrees F.
Parking: Ample space available on-site
